These pages are specifically for individuals coordinating the 2008 Spectrum Leadership Institute. Please do not edit unless you are listed as a coordinator below. If you have interest in planning future Institutes, contact the Office for Diversity and Spectrum at 800-545-2433 ext. 5048 or email spectrum@ala.org.

Note to Coordinators
To update information on this wiki please complete this two-step process for every update you do:

Find the session you need to update on this page below, click edit, next to a speaker's name you will see "status:". If the status is "need volunteer", volunteer to invite this speaker by putting "your name invite". Feel free to post continuous updates such as "your name invited date" on the day you sent an invitation.

Invite the speaker by sending the formal letter via email to this person. Follow-up by phone if you have not heard back within 10 business days. We hope to have all speakers confirmed by the second week of April.

After a speaker has accepted the invitation, thank them and request some additional information. Please gather and submit to email bio, email address (and if possible photo) of speaker to Gwendolyn Prellwitz no later than April 15. Also, please change the "status" on this speaker to Confirmed', and indicate if a bio is still needed or not.

Room information is not available just yet but all speakers will receive a final confirmation from Gwendolyn (POF committee will notify those participants) when the room assignments are finalized. All Spectrum Institute events will take place at the Hyatt Regency Orange County - this is conveniently located close to the Convention Center and is an ALA Conference Hotel.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Breakfast Served 7:00-8:15am, Location TBA

Tracing the Origins of the Spectrum Scholarship, 8:30-10am, Location TBA

Session covers the origins of Spectrum and will focus on the history of how the scholarship was developed. The session will be videotaped and separate segments will be filmed with each participant for a future video.
Featuring:

Deli Buffet Lunch Served 12-1pm, Location TBA

The Real Low-Down: LIS Education Vs. Your First LIS Job and What You Need to Know Before You Get Out There, 1:30-3pm, Location TBA

Your grad-advisor never told you there’d be days like this. With unflinching honesty, this panel of LIS professionals in multi-type settings hands down the nitty gritty on landing jobs, negotiating salaries and office-politics, the ins and outs of professional networking, resume-building, climbing the career ladder, creating your personal business plan, and still having a life and everything else you need to know but grad school alone can’t possibly prepare you for. Be there.Featuring:

status: Confirmed Moderator: Tracie D. Hall: Assistant Dean at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University

Dinner Served 5:30-7 pm Location TBA

The Professional Options Fair allows participants the chance to visit with representatives from a wide range of library environments and professional organizations. Representatives from ALA’s ethnic caucuses and affiliate groups will also be in attendance. Take full advantage of this unique opportunity to explore your options and network by visiting as many tables as you can!

Friday, June 27, 2008

Breakfast Served 7:00-8:15am, Location TBA

"…librarians are more freedom fighters than shushers." --Carla Hayden, Ms. Magazine online
Mission Statement: Radical Reference is a collective of volunteer library workers who believe in social justice and equality. We support activist communities, progressive organizations, and independent journalists by providing professional research support, education and access to information. We work in a collaborative virtual setting and are dedicated to information activism to foster a more egalitarian society.http://radicalreference.info/Featuring:

Reading by Amy Goodman, 10:15-11am, Location TBD

status: Gwendolyn in convo with Publisher

Democracy in America is in grave danger. Principles of liberty that the leaders of this country once held sacred—such as the right to a fair trial, the checks and balances system of our government, and prohibitions against torture—have been blatantly disregarded by the Bush administration. But Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!’s acclaimed host, and her brother, investigative journalist David Goodman, see hope. And that hope lies with grassroots heroes.

In their new book STANDING UP TO THE MADNESS: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary
Times (Hyperion; April 8, 2008; $23.95; Hardcover), the Goodmans, New York Times bestselling authors, explore the stories of everyday Americans who have fought to keep democracy as one of this country’s defining values. They tell the stories of everyday citizens who have challenged the government and prevailed. And, in the process of defending the core values of America, they are changing the way that politics is done, both now and in the future.